locale.format without trailing zeros

[Peter Otten]

przemolicc at poczta.fm wrote:

>>>> import locale
>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "pl_PL")
> 'pl_PL'
>>>> i=0.20
>>>> j=0.25
>>>> locale.format('%f', i)
> '0,200000'
>>>> locale.format('%f', j)
> '0,250000'
> 
> I need to print the numbers in the following format:
> '0,2'	(i)
> '0,25'	(j)
> So the last trailing zeros are not printed.

>>> print locale.format("%g", 1.23)
1,23
>>> print locale.format("%g", 1.2345678)
1,23457
>>> print locale.format("%.10g", 1.2345678)
1,2345678
>>> print locale.format("%.15g", 0.1)
0,1
>>> print locale.format("%.17g", 0.1)
0,10000000000000001